Alright I've seen some pretty bad articles being written about the PS4, with various complaints about the conference and potential functionality of the machine. Many of these may be legitimate gripes for some people, or just trolling. But this one from a Japanese newspaper, Nikkei, takes the cake.

The author provides a comparison between the PS4 and the Wii U. Sounds fair since they are both next generation devices. First, they don't get into technical details like number of cores or TFLOPS of processing power. The only mention is the maker of the CPU, and no mention at all of GPU. One technical spec they do get into, however, is the amount of memory the consoles have, something easy for the average person to grasp. The PS4 is listed as 8GB. The chart goes on to list the Wii U as 32GB and 8GB in two types.

...I'm sorry what?

Okay so maybe the author mixed up system memory with storage "memory". Even professionals might have a slipup right, even if it is a pretty ignorant one? And even if the wording can make it sound like 40GB total? The chart continues fairly accurately with BluRay and DVD on PS4, and proprietary optical media on Wii U, the fact that PS4 connects to external social media sites to share game content while Wii U utilizes its internal Miiverse.

Then we get down to the operability controls and they say the PS4 uses a facial recongnition camera to track users movements to play games. Wait... so they are basically saying it requires Kinect? Everyone already knows the Kinect is garbage, especially in anti-Xbox Japan, and now it's basically being associated with the PS4. There's no mention of any other control scheme. On the Wii U side they say on there is a touch screen on the controller that can be used to control games. Much different wording here, emphasizing possibility and choice.

Utter ignorance? Or just plain bias? Either way, this is a terrible comparison! I realize it is aimed at the average simpleton so I can understand not getting into minute technical details, but this is outright deceptive, and even the memory comparison isn't looking like a blunder anymore.

Nikkei = Nintendo fanboys... CONFIRMED.

I think we all know that any type of journalism has large quantities of misinformation and ignorance. I'm pretty sure the guy who wrote this doesn't even know what's a CPU.

Well to be fair, they're all storage, just exist on different mediums. RAM is primary storage and HDDs/SSDs are secondary storage.

On a serious note however, yeah they screwed that up bad.

People weren't kidding when they said Japs don't play much PC. How can you make such a huge mix-up with specs.

Maybe their tech journalist was sick so they brought in Pachter or something (which was Iwata in disguise all along).

Modern day Journalism..especially that which handles gaming..is an absolute joke

This is no better then the countless threads we have been getting for a day now. Seems like everyone needs to make a thread to say how happy they are and how Sony is the greatest thing ever.

You're surprised this kind of ignorance happens? I have seen tons of articles slamming Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft with flat out wrong information. This is nothing new to me and neither should it be to you.

This isn't a fanboy thread praising the PS4, it's a neutral thread to point out the ignorance and/or bias present in journalism so people can be aware of the rampant misinformation being spread through the media. Obviously it was beyond your understanding. Thanks for expressing your wonderful opinion, maybe you should be a journalist.